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1). Presentation Skills - The 10-Second RuleYour main job as a presenter is to ensure that throughout your presentation, you and everyone in the audience remain on the same page, even the same wavelength, every step of the way. If your slides contain more information that it takes the average listener more than 10 seconds to comprehend, you can’t possibly make this happen.
2). Presentation Skills - The First To Know
To fully understand the rules that govern just how much information you can include in your presentation slides, you need to appreciate a fundamental of human nature – namely, that we have an innate desire to be The First to Know.
Unfortunately, most of the presentation visuals that we see are designed with the mistaken belief that audiences will actually wait for the presenter to walk them through them.
3). Presentation Skills - The 7 Rules of Visual Design
The following comprise the rules of presentation visual design that, if heeded, will almost always assure that your audiences will be able to follow your ideas every step of the way.
4). Presentation Skills - Proper Slide Delivery
The only way to assure your presentation audience will stay with you every step of the way is to maintain proper eye contact throughout your presentation.
5). Presentation Design – The Right Graph
There are twelve different graph types available with PowerPoint 2000, but few of those styles work well in the low-resolution world of computer-based presentations.
6). Presentation Skills - The Right Graph
Microsoft does not know a heckuva lot about presentation design, but one thing they do correctly in PowerPoint is to make available different types of graph so that you can match the graph type to the point you’re trying to make with your data. There are twelve different graph types available with PowerPoint 2000, but few of those styles work well in the low-resolution world of computer-based presentations.
7). Presentation Design – The Good, The Bad, & The Mediocre
Your job as a presentation designer is to make ideas into visual images. For your presentations to work, the visual images must convey exactly what you want to say and require the least possible effort on the part of your audience to “get it”. The difference between a visual that works and one that fails is good design.
8). Presentation Design – Dealing with the Prohibitor General
When we see a slew of equally bad slides from different people in the same organization, we’re fairly certain that the company has a slew of workers in a Presentation Regulations Department working feverishly to hamstring any attempt by an employee to make their slides understandable, much less compelling.
9). Presentation Skills - Keeping the Blackberries at Bay
Successful presentations require proper eye-contact - read more to discover how chances are you've always done it wrong!
10). The 7 Basic Rules Of Proper Presentation Design
Abstract: This article elucidates the rules of presentation visual design that, if heeded, will almost always assure that your audiences will be able to follow your ideas every step of the way. Of course, you must keep in mind that visual design is only one-third of the package required for a successful presentation, the other two being content and delivery.
11). Presentation Skills – The Rightly Timed Pause
People only start listening when you stop talking. To put it another way, one of the very best things you can ever do while speaking is to NOT.